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Lake Titicaca

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Yesterday and today we toured Lake Titicaca. We stayed the night on an island with a local Quechua speaking family. Fortunately, our house parents knew some Spanish. First stop on our boat ride was to one of the floating islands of the Uros people. We got to walk on the sponge-like surface and later Alicia [...]

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Machu Picchu!

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Well, we definitely lucked out with our tour of Machu Picchu! Many people take a one-day train trip from Cusco, see the site, then return. Instead, we took the train up to the last town before the mountain and stayed the night. The next day we got up early and took the first bus up [...]

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